This is an analysis of Vickery's Mountain by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Blue in the west the mountain stands,
And through the long twilight…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Abab cdAD efef fbfb egeg hdhd gaga igig jgjg ajaj Acac fafa eaeaXADcd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 10010101 110111 01010101 1100111 11111111 111111 10010111101 10111011 110101111 111111 1001010111 101101 01010100 010101 111110101 111101 111111111 001101 111111100 1110101 11111111 011001 01011111 010101 11110101 110111 11110111 010111 10111101 111101 101010111 100101 01010101 001101 11011101 010101 11010100 111111 101011101 110111 10010101 010101 11010111 110101 11110101 111101 01011111 011101 01010101 011100 110001111 011110 10010111101 10111011 100100111 1010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
he, and, you, that, to
Anaphora
he, the
Anadiplosis
bright
